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The application I'm writing uses a library that is located in '/usr/local/lib'. The application compiles fine, but when I execute it, I get the following error:
error while loading shared libraries: libfmodex.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is happening because the library is located in '/usr/local/lib' and the system isn't looking in that directory for the library. I could create a link to '/usr/lib', but I want to assume that other users won't know to do that, so I have to modify my Makefile.am file to include this library directory, and I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how I would go about doing that.

Thanks in advance,
Bendeco

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfmodex.so /usr/lib


that should fix it without too much trouble...

Thankyou, but I did say:

Add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run "ldconfig".

umm, why? if you look around in Linux you will finds hundreds, maybe thousands of symlinks, one more wont hurt...

that does not always work, sometimes it does, sometimes not...

Thanks for yall's replies.
I tried the linking, but SELinux 'locked' up and wouldn't grant me permission to use the shared libraries, so I used Okie's method.
This worked, but the shared libraries were still 'locked', but I figured out how to fix that.

SELinux has only proven to me that it just makes doing things in Linux a bigger pain in the neck than it needs to be....